Law360, New York ( June 24, 2014, 10:45 AM EDT) -- On April 10, 2014, Sally Jewell, Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior, released a new strategy to implement mitigation policies and practices that will more effectively encourage infrastructure development while protecting natural and cultural resources: "A Strategy for Improving the Mitigation Policies and Practices of the Department of the Interior." DOI's overarching goal is to identify high-value resources and conservation priorities on a regional basis so that developers can plan projects more effectively from the outset (so as to avoid and minimize impacts to such resources), and to help developers more readily identify high-value compensatory mitigation opportunities (if necessary to compensate for unavoidable resource impacts)....